Abraham Joshua Heschel School (Top Ranked Private School for 2026-27)

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Top Ranked NY School
Grades: Prekindergarten-12
Enrollment: 967 students
Application Deadline: None / Rolling
Source: ✓Verified school update

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Abraham Joshua Heschel School ranks among the top 20% of private schools in New York for:

School Facts

Religious Affiliation

Jewish

Grades Offered

Grades Prekindergarten-12

Students By Grade

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Distribution of Students By Grade

Grade	Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Nursery	25
Pre-K	68
Kind	76
1	62
2	71
3	58
4	60
5	45
6	72
7	62
8	54
9	85
10	81
11	79
12	69

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Grade 9 is the largest grade at Abraham Joshua Heschel School, with 85 students.

Year Founded

1983

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Student Body

Total Students

967 students

Student Body Type

Co-ed

Academic Profile

Total Classroom Teachers

150 teachers

Student-Teacher Ratio

6:1

National avg.: 11:1

Classroom Dress Code

Casual

School Membership(s)School Assoc.

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)

Tuition & Financial Aid

Admission Deadline

None / Rolling

Yearly Tuition Cost

$60,000

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Admissions Director

Marsha Feris

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The Abraham Joshua Heschel School is an independent school named in memory of one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the 20th century.
Unaffiliated with any single movement or synagogue, The Heschel School sees as essential the creation of a community with families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs.
The School is devoted to equal participation—boys and girls, men and women—in all aspects of the School's religious, intellectual and communal life.
The Heschel School is dedicated to the values and principles that characterized Rabbi Heschel's life: integrity, intellectual exploration, traditional Jewish study, justice, righteousness, human dignity, and holiness.
The Heschel School is dedicated to fostering a lifelong love of learning.
It seeks to engender the understanding that the discovery of personal meaning and the growth of individual identity can emerge from the rigors of study.
The Heschel School seeks to create an ethical learning community that encompasses the children, staff, parents and all those who join in the work of the School.
The School values both the uniqueness of each individual member and the relationships they form with one another.
The Heschel School is dedicated to cultivating the spiritual lives of its students along with teaching them the skills to enable them to participate fully in contemporary Jewish life.

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School is an independent school named in memory of one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the 20th century.
Unaffiliated with any single movement or synagogue, The Heschel School sees as essential the creation of a community with families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs.
The School is devoted to equal participation—boys and girls, men and women—in all aspects of the School's religious, intellectual and communal life.
The Heschel School is dedicated to the values and principles that characterized Rabbi Heschel's life: integrity, intellectual exploration, traditional Jewish study, justice, righteousness, human dignity, and holiness.
The Heschel School is dedicated to fostering a lifelong love of learning.
It seeks to engender the understanding that the discovery of personal meaning and the growth of individual identity can emerge from the rigors of study.
The Heschel School seeks to create an ethical learning community that encompasses the children, staff, parents and all those who join in the work of the School.
The School values both the uniqueness of each individual member and the relationships they form with one another.
The Heschel School is dedicated to cultivating the spiritual lives of its students along with teaching them the skills to enable them to participate fully in contemporary Jewish life.

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The average private school tuition in New York, NY is $47,612 for elementary schools and $50,984 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).

The average acceptance rate in New York, NY is 62% (read more about average acceptance rates across the country).